This portrait bust of Robert Burns is one of a worldwide edition of only 150 pieces. Attached to the base (though not shown here in the image) is a cast plaque withe the enscription "Robert Burns - Scotland's Bard". The sculpture is hand cast in resin bronze by the artist to ensure a work of the highest quality. It measures, including cast mahogany base, at around 12 inches. It is priced at £149 including delivery to a UK address. Please contact for overseas shipping rates prior to purchase.

Born in Alloway on the 25th January 1759, Rabbie Burns is known world-wide for the superb expression, insight and honesty of his work.

The son of a farmer, Burns' education lasted until only his 9th year until required by his father to learn to work the plough.

Despite poverty Burns read as widely as he could and at eighteen discovered the works of poet Robert Ferguson and beween tending his father and attempting to run the farm turned his hand to poetry.

In 1785 he published his first collection-"Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" and all 612 copies printed sold within a month. Surviving copies of this "Kilmarnock Edition" are now worth many thousands of pounds. After the publication of his second collection he moved to a farm in Ellisland near Dumfries with his new wife, Jean Armour.However after his crops failed and with a new baby to care for Burns reluctantly took a job as an exciseman.

Over the next few years his poetic works and songs flourished despite his continuing poverty.

In 1796 with worries of debt hanging over him his health began to fail and despite his beloved Jean's nursing died in July of that year.

 

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